With the marathon on an ideal training day, SB Pimp My Stride, the relay team's name, had capitalized on the opportunity.

"This year the marathon wasn't on the weekend of Essex (Invitational) or the prom like it usually is, so why not run it as a team," MacDonald said. "Instead of training, we might as well go and see what we can do in a longer distance race."

Record breakers

Meg Lout and Kim Loeffer took a look at the record for the two-person, all-female relay team and said, 'we can beat that.'

Running in Sunday's Vermont City Marathon, the two women didn't just beat the record, they demolished it.

"It's awesome. I didn't feel so great the last three miles so I sort of last track of the time," Lout said. "I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to hold my end of the bargain.

"But we did it."

Lout and Loeffer's combined time was 2:46:13, nearly five minutes faster than the previous record (2:51:54).

Team Ramrod wins the relay

Juergen Uhl and Tim Reynolds decided running the two-person relay in Sunday's Vermont City Marathon would be fun.

And it was. So fun that the duo was the first two-person relay team to finish, with Uhl crossing in 2:36:25

"We're competitors, so we wanted to do well.," Uhl said. "Whether we were going to win or second or third, as long as we do well and I think we did that."

The hometown course helped spur the half-marathoners on, making it almost easy for Uhl to get to the finish line.

"The last few kilometers were long but there were so many people left and right that you kind of forget about the pain," he said. "It flys a little bit easier I thought."